Club Notes - October 19, 2022

 There were 16 ladies attending this afternoon’s meeting. I reported that we delivered 16 walker bags to Helpertunity and 32 dog beds to Humane Society of Lake County last week.

Last week I proposed that we make a monetary donation to 3 of our charities – The Sheriff’s Youth Ranch, Project S.O.S. (Save Our Soldiers), and the Ocala Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Center.  I plan to deliver checks to them along with some of our non-monetary gifts before Thanksgiving.

 Show and Tell:

Louise Stem showed a hand embroidered needlework case.

Laura Paulk has finally returned to The Villages after a long period of caring for her grandchildren.  She showed a quilt she made from the fabric of all the COVID masks she made for her family over the last few years.

  The back consists of bandanas purchased for her grandson during Grand Canyon trips.

Deb Chapman showed 2 table runners she made.  Her husband liked the first one so much he asked for one for his table.

(Backs)

Brenda Severa showed a Christmas bag she made in 2009.  She just rediscovered it when looking for supplies for this week’s project. 😉

B.J. Herter showed the clutch purse she finished for donation and a ghost pillow made with glow in the dark fabric.

Ellen Hein showed 2 quilts she completed the binding on. 

 

The first was from a set of squares found in our donation pile already sewn together.  I added some squares and a thin blue border, B.J. added a border of smaller squares, and Ellen applied the binding after I backed and quilted it.

The second was Deb Chapman’s block/row of the month quilt, finished with embroidery edge-to-edge quilting.

Liz Manzione showed 2 scrap  strip blocks she made for our challenge.

Bev Minnerly made 2 star blocks from last week’s demo 

and a baby outfit for her grand-niece

Eileen DiSanto turned in her strip scrap square challenge block.

Kathryn Jeter showed the star block she made.

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After show and tell, B.J. showed everyone how to make a reversible fabric box.  I’ve attached a copy of her handout.  This was a popular project -most of those in attendance selected fabric and batting to make one of these and a couple were finished before the end to the meeting.

Next week is our Halloween party. 24 ladies have signed up and I ordered food for 26, so there is still time to add your name if you decide to attend.    I told everyone that I am currently working on an insurance issue with the caterer, so things might change.  I will keep everyone posted. 

 

Have a great week.

Lois